Inquiry commissioner Steve Allan handed $905K sole-source contract to son’s law firm | CBC News
Commissioner
Steve Allan granted the sole-source contract, for legal advice to the
inquiry, to the law firm Dentons, where his son Toby is a partner.
Steve Allan granted the sole-source contract, for legal advice to the
inquiry, to the law firm Dentons, where his son Toby is a partner.
The
contract was issued 11 days after Allan was named by Premier Jason
Kenney to head the $2.5 million Public Inquiry Into Funding of
Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns.
“I think it’s a clear conflict of interest,” said Duff Conacher, co-founder of Ottawa-based Democracy Watch.